Say What? Happy Birthday!!

Hiiii!! I would like to give a spotlight to another new stamp for this month and this one is the Say What? stamp set. I love these speech bubbles because they aren't bound to an occasion and you can it as it is or use it with your critters or other images. But today, I'm just going to use it as it is.

Simply put, I've just embossed almost all the speech bubbles on pieces of coloured cardstock along with the little words and icons in it. Trim them all and leave a little bit of border of colour around the speech bubbles. 

I've left the bottom part empty to stick on the sentiment using the Birthday Triple die. I've die-cut it 3 times to stack it up to thicken it up. Finished it off with dots of stickles and white enamel dots. 

I hope you like this card and give these stamps a try!

Birthday Triple die
Say What? stamp set

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Thanks for stopping by,

Marina

clean & simple ideas 2/7 * beautiful backgrounds

Hello crafty people, Nicole here.

This is part two of my clean & simple cardmaking series about "how to spice up clean & simple cards".

I love making series and I asked what you would like to see on this blog in our Facebook group "Create A Smile Friends & Family". Many of you were interested in tips on "how to spice up clean and simple cards". So here we are :-)

Clean and simple cards are super fun but because there is so much white (or blank) space on them, you don't want them to be boring, right?! I try to add an eye-catching element to my cards to keep them interesting. I picked ten of my favorite ways to spice up clean & simple cards.

What's a clean & simple card? 
I made a mini series on that too. You can find part one here -> clean & simple 1/4

My second tip is BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUNDS. I did some pretty basic coloring but the backgrounds really give the cards some extra interest. So lets spice up your clean & simple cards with happy and eye-catching backgrounds! :-)

I love Birkas Videos and she just made a new one about Distress Inks and stencils. She shows, how easy is it to make fun backgrounds with supplies you might already have on hand.

Look around you and get inspired! :-) Just try something new once in a while and take your time. A clean and simple card is not always a quick card ;-)

• pick and immage and color it the way you like it. You don't have to choose a special technique, basic coloring is absolutely fine for this type of card
• pick one or two Distress Inks colors and start with a soft blending with one of them
• take a stencil you like and add the same color but with more pressure or the second (darker) color
• arrange your card and add a fun sentiment

It's that simple ;-)

Lovely Critters / Kroküsse * Crokisses / cool cute: birthday tripple * Geburtstags-Tripple / stencils: focal point & waves

... to check out the CAS Video team! Here's Birkas Video I was talking about: in English and in German.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a happy day :-)
Nicole

[VIDEO] Backgrounds with Stencils & Distress Ink

Hi everybody :-)

I made a new Video for you and its gonna be a looot of photos, sorry for that ;-) But I wanted to show you how I do the most of my backgrounds, with stencils and Distress Ink. In the Video I'm showing you six backgrounds and (very fast) the six cards wich came out :-)

These a my cards...

In the last weeks some girls asked me via Instagram, how I'm doing my backgrounds. And with stencils and Distress Ink its sooo easy and there a so many variations, so I wanted to give you a little introduction :-)

Here you can watch the Video in english







... and here is das Video in Deutsch :-)

There is a freshly challenge on our Blog.. its all about birthday :-) the most easy challenge you can find... so join us :-)